Term
| Identify the candidates and issues of the 1988 presidential election. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Analyze how George H. W. Bush straddled the moderate and conservative positions of the Republican party. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Discuss the circumstances surrounding the fall of communism in the Soviet Union. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Explain how the end of the Cold War affected U.S. foreign relations. |
|
Definition
| Communist governments toppled like dominoes (Map 31.2), virtually without bloodshed, because Gorbachev refused to prop them up with Soviet armies, a stand that won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 |
|
|
Term
| Discuss the events leading up to the 1991 Gulf War and the U.S.'s role in it. |
|
Definition
U.S. officials had quietly assisted the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in his war against neighboring Iran in 1980
In August 1990, Hussein sent troops into the small, oil-rich country of Kuwait to the south (Map 31.1), and within days the invasion neared the Saudi Arabian border, threatening the world's largest oil reserves. |
|
|
Term
| Analyze the outcome of the 1992 presidential campaign, including the candidates and major issues. |
|
Definition
| “Bill" Clinton and Bush and Ross Perot, |
|
|
Term
| Identify the major policy initiatives of President Clinton's first term. |
|
Definition
Family and Medical Leave Act, which entitled workers in larger companies to unpaid leave for childbirth, adoption, and family medical emergencies.
the Violence against Women Act of 1994, authorized $1.6 billion and new remedies for combating sexual assault and domestic violence.
increase in the minimum wage, expansion of aid to low- and moderate-income college students, and the creation of AmeriCorps, a program enabling students to pay for their education with community service.The |
|
|
Term
| Identify the political gains women and minorities made in the 1990s. |
|
Definition
| building on the gradual progress women and minorities had made during the previous decades. For example, African Americans and women had become mayors in major cities from New York to San Francisco. Virginia had elected the first black governor since Reconstruction, and Florida the first Latino. In |
|
|
Term
| Explain the events that led to the attempt to impeach Clinton. |
|
Definition
charges of illegal activities related to firings of White House staff, political use of FBI records, and “Whitewater”—the nickname for real estate dealings that the Clintons had conducted in Arkansas
The president also faced a sexual harassment |
|
|
Term
| Compare and contrast George H.W. Bush's "New World Order" with Clinton's foreign policy. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Analyze Americans' attitudes toward immigration in the 1980s and 1990s. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Summarize the arguments for and against economic globalization during the Clinton presidency. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Analyze the social, political, and economic impact of the Internet. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Discuss the disputed 2000 presidential election and its outcome. |
|
Definition
|
|
Term
| Explain what George W. Bush meant when he described himself as a "compassionate conservative." |
|
Definition
| Bush separated himself from the extreme right wing of his party and tried to co-opt Democratic issues such as education. |
|
|
Term
| Identify the events of September 11, 2001, and the effects on U.S. foreign and domestic policies. |
|
Definition
|
|
